Audio resources

Audio resources

How to capture, edit, compress, convert and publish audio online

Recording

High Criteria's Total Recorder will let you record almost anything off your computer — streaming audio, Mic input, Line-in input as well as CDs and DVDs. Download here.

Streamripper is an open source application that lets you record streaming mp3 to your hard drive, creating separate files for each track. Runs on Windows and Unix.

Audiograbber software grabs digital audio from CDs by copying the audio digitally — not through the soundcard — which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals.

iRecordMusic from Bitcartel for the Mac is a quasi-radio TiVo. It records streaming Internet radio feeds, whether they are served by QuickTime, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player. After recording, the content is encoded as unprotected AAC (MP4), MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) or LAME MP3. Cost: US$24.95.

Hymn (Hear Your Music Anywhere) and PyMusique for iTunes allow users to strip or bypass the DRM schemes implemented by online music stores such as iTunes. Here's why some folks do it.

Another commercial option is RadioTime. Subscribers download the program, log onto its website to browse a schedule of shows, and click the record button or schedule a recording. You can record from more than 35,000 stations in 140 countries and play them back in MP3 format on a PC or portable player.

Publishing and sharing audio

Ourmedia: How to publish audio to the Web.

Editing and conversion tools

Audiotoolsfactory is where you can find audio editing and conversion tools.

BeSweet is an audio transcoding tool that lets you convert audio files from one format to another, including MP3, AC3, WAV, MP2, AVI, Aiff, VOB and Ogg Vorbis.

Hydrogenaudio is the leading newsgroup for discussions of advanced audio encoding.

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